I have a backup of the entire xampp/mysql folder. How can I use it to recover my old db on a fresh installation of XAMPP?
Simply copying the old xampp/mysql folder to new xampp leads to mysql errors ...

Hello I got some problems with a MySQL shemas and it seems that the schemas got deleted for an unknown reason. I try to find in the binlog for more information of this but I didn't find the way to see ...

I recently implemented Ola Hallengren Maintenance solution on all of my production servers(SQL server 2005,2008,2008R2 and 2012). It works great.
My problem is how to implement Ola Hallengren backup ...

I ran a backup into a folder. The Network Service has full control access to this folder. The backup process didn't work until I granted that account full control.
I try to restore that same file but ...

I read about ROLLFORWARD option on link http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_9.7.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.cmd.doc/doc/r0001978.html?cp=SSEPGG_9.7.0%2F3-6-2-4-106 but I could not find ...

I got a task for backing up my clients data through internet. Client has about 50 GB of data there. So I need to back up the data and pass through internet, but it takes about 8 to 9 hours for this ...

I have a SQL Server database that is running these scripts to create backups. It's running full backups once a week, daily differentials, and hourly logs. These are being FTPd to another box where I ...

A developer working on my server has fiddled with some settings and knocked my postgresql database offline. I've been messing with it for an hour and am considering just reinstalling postgresql fresh ...

I've recently taken over a SQL Server database that didn't have any transaction log backup routine running for at least 2 years. The first log backup was very large (3.8 gb on a 1.14 gb database) as ...

Is there a tool for quickly backup and restore a table's data, preferably to a csv file?
It would be best if I could do it using batch. Run a .cmd file and data is backed up into a file with datetime ...

I want a periodic MySQL database backup, but I don't have permission to access ssh. When I try to run mysqldump via command line in Plesk Scheduled Tasks, it only creates a blank file 0 kb sized. I'm ...

Is there a limit to how large a database can be when executing a .sql backup using mysqldump, or will you run into server problems before that - will the server not be able to take such a large backup ...

I have a SQL Server database that is creating full backups once a week, differential backups once a day, and transaction log backups hourly. These are being FTP'd to another box, where I would like an ...

I know IFI (Instant File Initialization) is good to have enabled on SQL Servers. How about backup archive locations? We backup our DBs to a local SSD drive (so it backs up quickly), then throughout ...

I am planning a script to work on our percona. Our strategy is to do full backup weekly but incremental backups every day/hour. I have read innobackupex manual and got confused further as to whether I ...

Some people tell me that the backup database on-the-fly using rsync is possible. I think it is possible but not safe because some log, buffer... is not flushed. Database is being recovered from the ...

Is there anything "special" about the Amazon RDS Automated Backup Window, or is the backup window merely an arbitrary timespan in which the backup is expected to complete?
That is to say, if I have ...

Backups of MySQL innodb databases are taken using mylvmbackup and the resulting backup contains the whole mysql folder as per example below:
ibdata1
ib_logfile0
ib_logfile1
mysql/
mysql_upgrade_info
...

I have several instances of MongoDB replica set servers with a primary and a failover machine for each replica set.
The primary machine makes daily backups by creating an LVM snapshot and copying all ...

I'm planning to set up a new Win 2012 server, with SQL server 2014 standard. This server is going to replace our current server, Win 2008R2, with SQL server 2008R2. The name and ip is going to be the ...

I took a copy of the current database from a live slave using pg_basebackup and recovered it to a brand new isolated computer following the instructions in the docs. Once the new database had started ...

i'm working new on database administrator and i have some questions
if i want to make SQL full backup database every Saturday at 6:00 AM
and for some reasons the device was shutdown
the questions are ...

Hello there fellow developers,
Merry Christmas first aff all, and i hope you will have a happy new year soon. :)
I was having more or less a problem with an idea that came to my mind.
I am currently ...